INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Russia on Wednesday knocked what it called unfounded accusations by the French government that it hacked President Emmanuel Macrons
We highly turn down the unproven accusations by the French side, the Russian Embassy in France said on Telegram, after Paris implicated
Moscow of being behind cyberattacks against France throughout the last decade.France on Tuesday implicated the Russian military intelligence
GRU of staging cyberattacks, including against an organisation associated with the Paris Olympics and Macrons very first election campaign
Western countries have for years implicated Russian intelligence of cyberattacks and interfering in their political systems, including
election campaigns.French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot took the accusations to the UN Security Council, demanding that Russia, whose
envoy remained in the chamber, immediately stop the attacks.Barrot said Russia used a branch of the GRU military intelligence referred to as
Known as Fancy Bear, the branch has actually been connected to global attacks including in the 2016 United States election, when emails of
Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton were leaked.Relations in between France and Russia have actually been tense given that Moscow
introduced its Ukraine intrusion in 2022, with Paris becoming one of Kyivs primary allies.
